Darktable 2.0 Released, How to Install it in Ubuntu

December 24, 2015

The Darktable Team finally announced the release of Darktable 2.0 today on Christmas Eve.

Darktable 2.0 has been ported to GTK+ 3. It features a new print mode, PDF exporting support, better HiDPI support, a new thumbnail cache, new image operations, new camera support, UI and scripting enhancements, and much more.

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has an unfortunate side effect. If you follow the link to the “Stable PPA” (actually there are other links to this, so my suggested fix follows later) then you get to a page that tells you how to add the ppa: and install darktable. However, the ppa information on that only goes up to 1.4 (at least for Ubuntu 14.04).

I eventually worked out that there’s a different ppa on this page, which works beautifully.

Perhaps Pascal de Bruijn could update his ppa information section to the current (or just remove it), to avoid the confusion for others?

Meanwhile, and much more importantly, I’m really excited to have found this. I’ve been forced to run a windows box for the sole purpose of having good image handling tools with up to date cameras and 16+ bit depth support, and now I think I might be about to be able to dump adobe and microsoft once and for all. Thank you all for your awesome work!